I'm commander Shepherd and this my favorite post on the citidal.

Yes this is the best idea, and a gun like thus should be like the charge sniper at proto maybe but I'd like it to be an advanced weapon as well.

Can you link me to the rifle thread?
I've been using the Rail Rifle (both versions) for a very long time now, and I'd like to chime in with regarding this rifle.

The idea's good, but that doesn't change the blaring (blairing?) fact that the RR like the magsec has way too much ammo for a railgun based weapon, I mean the sniper rifle, bolt pistol, and even the railgun turrets, all have very few ammo capacities, maybe when adding the idea of your's would justify a DPS increase, the ammo capacity should be very limited, similar to the breach AR (which is another gun that makes no sense it should have at least a 700 ROF with 45, 47.5 and 50 DPS with at least 35 rounds).

(EDIT: Yeah ignore the breach AR a little, the guns bothersome for me as it is, but the gun should still not be so slow, or have so few bullets or such a high base damage).

Suggested railgun weapon capacities listed below;

Rail Rifle: 28 (with a DPS increase, with a ROF of say 550-570 you wouldnt have to give a major DPS increase, while having us CAL assault players rely more on the reloading skill than we normally would) I also suggest a caldari reload speed buff so we can reload quickly.

Assault Rail Rifle:32 (by reducing charge time to be similar to the militia assault rail rifle DPS wont see a huge rise but should still have a likely killing rate, added with a ROF increase to 650 DPS increase should possibly be minimal)

Magsec SMG: 36 (if ROF remains the same, DPS increase may be large, maybe increase headshot damage to reduce the necessary base damage compensation, since headshotting with the magsec is particuarly hard (at least I find it hard)

Now i've been meaning to post my feelings on the RR and magsec smg, but im pretty lazy so, it just never happened, let me know your thoughts on this.

Second edit: Now that I think about it, you could just increase headshot damage across the board amongst all railgun weapon's you wouldn't even need to increase DPS all that much, if at all if its high enough, then it becomes a real skill weapon, and not just some gun that's easy to use.

I'm not sure that's actually the case- it seems all weapons with small mags have barely any ammo in them, with the exception being forge guns.

rail rifles are at a bad place atm, out damaged at range, worthless close up. They need a base dmg buff so we can pretend they do what they are meant too, ie good LR weapons but meh I think they just dead now

Maybe if had better optinals or something they wouldnt look useless vs the OP ScR, or have a stable place like the AR or just good at everything like the CR but right now they just a shakey pile of ****.

If we are looking to "make it like eve", then having it function as a semi automatic weapon would make the most sense as suggested by several people. When the RR first came out people were expecting it to be semi auto.

The predominate theme of rail weapons is the charge up time without being able to hold the charge, which supports semi automatic game play rather than fully automatic gameplay as the recoil and charge up doesn't hurt the format as much. Fully automatic with a charge up makes the traditional fluttering of the trigger counterproductive, which is usually critical in range battles with cover.

Not sure if you guys would find a semi automatic rifle useful or not, you guys would know more than me on this one, but it would differentiate itself from the assault version more.

Depends. ScR is semi auto already. And anything we do should be future proof.

But the dual mode RR sounds interesting. My concern is that should we eventually get a tactical rail rifle, how would it function in comparison? How would the assault rail rifle differ?

Imagine the dual mode rail rifle as the base variant. Semi auto fire without a need to charge up between shots? And full auto mode that can be activated by holding the fire button, that would require the current charge up mechanic?

Do we add a headshot multiplier? For both semi and full auto modes? Or only one mode? How much of a multiplier?

I think advocating a semi auto and full auto in one rifle would not be well received within the community at large (I also be part of that group). Reasons why, I don't think its even possible with the coding, as there is a caveat in the weapon coding which classifies it as semi auto or full auto. So not only is it beyond the reach of the dev team but it would be harder to balance stats with flexibility. The simpler you can get the concept the less people can trash it. Numbers are a lot simpler to balance than flexibility.

I think advocating a semi auto and full auto in one rifle would not be well received within the community at large (I also be part of that group). Reasons why, I don't think its even possible with the coding, as there is a caveat in the weapon coding which classifies it as semi auto or full auto. So not only is it beyond the reach of the dev team but it would be harder to balance stats with flexibility. The simpler you can get the concept the less people can trash it. Numbers are a lot simpler to balance than flexibility.

I still sit by my earlier RR balancing post (page 1), and making it semi out without charge would make people abuse its ability cause why fire at full damage when you can fire at a much greater rate of fire in its semi auto form? You could also make it much better in caldari hands by changing the cal aslt reload skill, to a charge spool reduction rate (0.06 per level), something that would allow the assault rail rifle to be used without having to worry about its charge time, and maybe bring the standard RR up to .75 spooling time so that its best in Caldari hands, just my two cents...

I still sit by my earlier RR balancing post (page 1), and making it semi out without charge would make people abuse its ability cause why fire at full damage when you can fire at a much greater rate of fire in its semi auto form? You could also make it much better in caldari hands by changing the cal aslt reload skill, to a charge spool reduction rate (0.06 per level), something that would allow the assault rail rifle to be used without having to worry about its charge time, and maybe bring the standard RR up to .75 spooling time so that its best in Caldari hands, just my two cents...

I've always thought that as well. Would make more sense than a reload speed bonus, which commandos already get.

Would fit just as well on a commando, the 10% damage increase is kind of worthless...

It is, if it was 15% (3 per level) that would put commando's in a good place, it would help them MUCH better since their called COMMANDO (like seriously, we might as well be wearing pants with no underwear with how weak many commando's are).

Also let's not derail ourselves from the RR conversation!

Funny thing is, the term commando basically means special forces, which doesn't apply to a commando suit whatsoever.
A 15% damage boot would be OP as hell, because that's still more than you can get stacking nothing but damage mods on a caldari assault.

But, back on topic, I wonder how many players would rather use the current rail rifles, and why. They seem pretty stupid to me.